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in order to institute a fair comparison between one district
and another, it is necessary to further correct the death.rate
for sex and age distribution, for it is obvious that a population
containing a large number of young persons between the ages
of five and thirty, when the death.rate is very low, should
have a lower death.rate than, one containing an excess of
aged persons. The population of London is taken as the
standard, and factors are calculated, which when multiplied
by the death.rate of any Metropolitan Borough, give the
death.rate that Borough would have if the age distribution
of its population were the same as in the Metropolis. This
rate is called the standard death.rate. The factor for the
correction of the Woolwich death.rate is 1.0219.
11. The net deaths were 1,690, and the net death.rate
13.2, compared with 11.5 and 12.3 in the two preceding
years, and 12.6, the average of the ten preceding years.
12. By multiplying by 1.0249, the factor for age distribution,
we get the standard death.rate, viz., 13.5, which
rate should be used in comparing Woolwich with other places
in, which the death.rate is similarly corrected. The following
table shows the net and standard death.rates of Woolwich,